[UK-CONTEST] Real-time sharing of logs between stations in AFS teams

[Robert Chipperfield]

Hi Stewart,

On 10/11/2010 15:17, Stewart Bryant wrote:
> The private net would certainly be a bad thing for contesting. Consider
> two teams A1 A2 B1 B2.
>
> A2 and B1 work each other pass the info to A1 and B2 in semi real time.
> All A1 and A2 need to exchange is the serial number, which with a bit of
> listen for my friend would reduce to a single s/n passed in one direction.
>
> Stewart/G3YSX
In that form, yes, I agree that's an issue, but that's also a definite 
contravention of the rules (something along the lines of "all contest 
information must be passed over the air as part of the exchange, and 
must not be populated from a database or similar", without looking it up 
exactly).

I was only proposing frequency and callsign info. Perhaps course-grained 
location info as well (JO02) to aid beam direction. Or even just beam 
heading with no distance (again, my imagined situation is an AFS team 
who are relatively close to each other, so change in beam heading 
between stations within a few tens of km is small for any interestingly 
distant contacts). That would ensure that the full contest exchange was 
still required for all contacts.

73,
Rob, M0VFC